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Is there a program to IM other people besides aol;s program. I use firefox and my friend uses something else. how can we set this up?

Has anyone encountered the error message 0x000006ba (The RPC server is unavailable) when doing sfc /scannow. It also says Windows file protection could not initiate a scan of protected system files. If anyone knows how to correct this please respond.

My Windows XP Home will not start due to missing or corrupt flie: <Windows root>\ system 32\ hal.dll (error message) I need to reinstall a copy of the above file according to the error message The System32 folder and its subfolders contain the core operating system files for Windows XP What should I do to correct this problem? I cannot find my Windows XP Setup from the operating system CD. Bob

I am trying to repair a machine for a couple of the kids next door. While I am no novice, this one has me pulling out hair. I can run almost NOTHING! IE runs - but gets a zillion "scan your drive for problems" pop-ups. I am afraid to place the machine into my network for fear of migration. Have tried most of the suggestions found here and on many other web sites - all to no avail. tried running spybot, etc etc - all nothing. Can't run smitfraud cleaner or any other reg file - "Task Manager not available b/c it was turned off by admin - NOT... I am really p.o'd on this one and my brain is now officially fried. Please help if ou can - the kids are wanting their computer and…

I installed a new hard drive as a slave to my original C:\ drive but that drive has been unreliable and crashed twice. I'd like to move my operating system to the new drive but Microsoft instructions I have found start with running Windows backup. My computer came with preinstalled Windows and my recovery disk doesn't include the back up utility. I've also searched Microsoft on the web for a download of the backup utility but have not found that.

Windows Explorer freezes and ends itself, or must be ended, whenever I open a folder containing an image file (at least .jpg files, for sure). This is true whether it is all image files, or mixed data types. The window has left/right navigation arrows, and two other navigation icons that I don't even understand, in the middle. The items contained in the folder are thumbnailed across the bottom of the window. Above the arrows it says "No file is selected." But I am unable to select a file, scroll to the right to see what else is in there, close the window, or do anything else. It appears to be expecting a slideshow (one option, in the left pane). I first noticed…

Hi there, We have some servers i'd like to auto-login - though most of what they do runs as a service, some legacy desktop applications point blank refuse to play nicely and must be run under a domain account. As the servers are on a domain, the control userpasswords2 method of auto-logon will not work (the options do not appear on a domain machine). TweakUI would be overkill and a pain to roll out, so the registry is our only option. If we were to restrict the Winlogon key in the registry to the local admins group via ACL, what's the worst that could happen? (Please bear in mind that the only people who ever access this server do it via a local intranet site…

it wont let me it says it cant install what do i do?

I am interested in changing the location of the directory "C:\Program Files" to a different drive. More generally, there are a number of parameters that one can see by typing "set" at a DOS prompt. The parameter "C:\Program Files" is one of them. Where are they defined? Changing them there doesn't do a thing. -- Don J ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

sAbout a month or so ago my HP laptop would not restart. I put in the OS disk ad was able to repair. Did not loose any programs or files. But now I do not have the XP Service Pack 2 intalled. My OS says I still have the XP SP1 running. When I attempt to update MS says I already have the SP2 installed. Any advice?

Downloaded Internet Explorer 7 today after updating my reinstall of Windows XP with a lot of help from this forum. Something didn't work right. Everytime I tried to boot it would take me to the desktop and no further. Nothing would load. No programs, no icons, etc. I researched this for hours and finally decided to do a repair install. Went through the directions I got off the internet but it starts out by booting up and the Windows XP Home Edition splash screen runs. I get to the part about installing devices and then it goes into setup is being restarted. Goes back to the window where it shows windows is installing and shows 39 minutes left. Th…

I have a Logitech Ultra X keyboard ps2. I was typing away last night no problems. I shut down. Now this morning, my computer boots fine and my mouse works but I can't type. I've tried other keyboards and they won't work either. I've tried rebooting and I've gone into device manager and tried unistalling the driver and then restarting my computer but nothing works. Can anyone help?

How do I recover a desktop icon for a program in XP? My mother has only the most basic of computer skills so I spent a bit of time with her yesterday trying to show her how to launch a program. I had her move the mouse onto an icon that starts a PPPoE dialer on my brother's computer and then double-click on it. Since she is still very awkward with the mouse, she moved the icon as she clicked on it. It happened very quickly but I _think_ she dragged and dropped the dialer icon onto the icon below it; the lower icon simply disappeared. My theory is that she didn't delete the other program, just the icon for the program. But neither of us knew which program it w…

Hello. I want to buy a notebook dell 1720 (amd) or 1721 (intel) and between the most basic configuration of one and the one that I like of intel there is almost 400€ of difference. Both they are with 17 monitor of " and Enhanced Keyboard. Can you advise to me? Different processors and final price: 1720: Procesador Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7100 (1,80 GHz, 800 MHz, caché de nivel 2 de 2 MB) 1215€ 1720: Procesador Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7300 (2 GHz, 800 MHz, caché de nivel 2 de 4 MB) 1308€ 1721: Tecnología AMD® Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile TL-56 de doble núcleo (1,8ghz caché 2x512) 915€ 1721: Tecnología AMD® Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile TL-64 de doble n…

My laptop running winxp home sp/2 was powered off abruptly. Since then it will start but only goes to the screen showing window Pre startup screen. No way to go any furhter. I'd like to take this opportunity to upgrade from home to pro as well as fix whatever is broken. I'd like to do this `in place' if possible. I do own licensed copies of xp pro on CD. I find piles of confusing and contradictory info by googling on `upgade windows home to windows xp' Hoping someone can direct me to tried and proven information to accomplish the goal stated above.

Which is more appropriate for Windows 98, 2nd edition--DBxtract or DBxpress? Thanks, -- Dancer "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote: > "sootygold" <sootygold@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:F6D63935-FA93-4B76-94D0-863D42DF15A6@microsoft.com > > please can anyone advise? I was compacting my emails in outlook > > express yesterday when my pc crashed.When i re booted i found to my > > horror that i had lost 6 months of emails from my inbox,and that > > many others were left unreadable,saying the message had not been > > downloaded. I am not able to view any of those emails and unable to > > …

I had a crash with my hard drive and want to know if I will have any problems reinstalling XP Home on another hard drive. I have previously upgraded from 98SE and have all the disks and activation codes. Will there be a problem with microsoft and the activation? -- jv

Hello when I try to close my laptop (Dell 8600 Xp home with all updates/ corrections) I receive this message : if you close the programm now, you will loose every thing which is not saved....etc this happens on xpcome event receiver ans sometimes with accapp. also I can not eject my external hard disk "safely" ( icon in the ask bar) it always says try again later but nothing changes. My external drive is a iomega 300gb divided in three partitions 120 100 80 are the two things connected ? and how can I avoid this ? thank you in advance tam

I just noticed something odd about the "Start" button on the bottom left of my Windows XP screeen. It apears the bottom half of the word "Start" is shifted slightly to the left and out of line with the upper part of the word "Start". The word no longer has a smooth appearance, almost like it has been pushed to the left a pixel or two. Everything else appears normal. Any ideas or comments? thanks, Bob

everytime i try to install something the message "The Windows Installer service could not be accessed" will pop up and then not finish the installation and ive tried the resolutions on the microsoft help page. but i cant do any of them, because te first one..i dont have "Msiserver" in the regedit. and when i try doing the other option with the cmd program and typing in "ren msi.dll msi.old.. etc." it says "the system cannot find the file specified".. soo is there a website i need to download these files (msiserver or the ren msi.dll msi.old ones??) orr what about the msiserver. please help. thanks

I have downloaded and installed MS Virtual Machine 2007. The documentation was confusing. It indicated this application would run on an XP Home SP2 Box, 2.2Ghz Celeron, .5GIG RAM, 80GIG HDD. That's what I've got. I received two caution messages as I installed it. They told me that I do not have a "supported operating system" which I mean to take that Microsoft won't provide me with technical support. The documentation was confusing however. One site (on Microsoft.com) said that XP Home was supported and invited me to download Vista to give it a try within this Virtual Machine. Has anyone any additional knowledge with regard to this. Thank you.

When I turn on my computer, it fails to start up windows and restarts after a brief blue screen error message. All of the message that I can read before it restarts is "beginning dump of physical memory." I'm using windows XP on an HP laptop that is about a year and a half old. I am completely clueless as to what I need to do, so any help would be greatly appreciated. I would really prefer if I could salvage my documents and files, but I don't know if that's possible. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

I couldn't start my computer (XP Professional SP2) any more and following is the error message: Unmountable_Boot_Volume Stop: 0x000000ED (0x82FA8900, 0xC000009C, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) On Microsoft support website, there is an article about 0x000000ED, but I cannot find this specific combination in that article. It suggests that it's either UDMA controller problem or the damaged file system. I tried to fix it with the Recovery Console and used "chkdsk /r". The message is that there are un-recoverable errors. Should I use "fixroot" under this circusmtance? Will "fixroot" create more problems if I need to bring the computer to a professional? I would a…

12:21 PM 6/30/2007 What is the e-mail address of Google or of an OFFICER of Google? Thank you, Barry Karas

I have various Roxio programs** on my computer with Windows XP as my Operating System. What are they used for? Which other programs/applications do I need them for? Thank you, Barry Karas **RoxMediaDB9.exe RoxWatchh9.exe RoxWatchTray9.exe